Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, head of the International Peace Institute and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will visit SLS for several events and to accept the Ralston Prize in International Law. https://stanford.io/3JAwXzb

Jennifer Chacón (BA ’94), the Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, wrote a book (with Susan Bibler Coutin, and Stephen Lee) titled, Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law (Stanford University Press), which examines questions of ...national identity and immigration.

This book interviews would-be applicants of the deferred action program (DAPA) for parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents that President Obama attempted but ultimately fell short of implementing, along with immigration rights advocates and government officials. These interviews illustrate how such failed immigration reform programs affect individuals, families, communities, and the country. This is a story of resiliency and how individuals have forged onward despite a difficult and uncertain legal landscape.

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“Our hope is to work closely with Senegalese civil society groups to analyze systemic challenges to democracy there and to propose avenues for reform,” said SLS Professor and the Executive Director of the Rule of Impact Lab, Amrit Singh, in a profile by The Stanford Daily.

On March 24,... Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a Senegalese politician and opposition leader, won the election for the presidency, marking him as the youngest president in Senegalese history. Prior to his election, Stanford Law School's Rule of Impact Lab fought for the free election by filing a lawsuit in January against the internet shutdowns of summer 2023.

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